With the Baggies’ mini-revival coming to a shuddering halt at the King Power Stadium on Thursday evening, it leaves this season’s team four points behind Robson’s Great Escape team at the same stage. You can read more about the 1-1 draw at Villa Park that lifted Albion out of the bottom three in my Step back in time to 2005…
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The Baggies’ victory over Southampton saw them record back-to-back Premier League victories for the first time since Darren Moore’s side beat Newcastle United and Tottenham Hotspur in April 2018. Those were both 1-0 wins and the last time that the Baggies won successive games in the top flight by more than one goal was way back in February 2012 when…
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I don’t think anyone in the football world saw that coming. Albion’s first win at Chelsea in the Premier League, their first win at Stamford Bridge since 1983 and their first at that venue in the league since 1978. Sam Allardyce also became the first Premier League manager to win at the Bridge with three different clubs. It was also…
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Another defeat leaves this season’s Baggies at the bottom of their Premier League counterparts, two points behind 2017/18, and three points adrift of Albion’s first two Premier League campaigns. Alan Pardew was still three games from the sack when they lost at Watford three years ago, their sixth successive defeat in all competitions, while game 29 in 1985/86, Albion’s worst…
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A goalless draw with Newcastle United is really not enough for the Baggies and, coupled with Fulham’s victory at Anfield, it leaves Sam Allardyce’s side as good as down. They are now eight points behind both Fulham and Brighton who are immediately above them, and still nine behind Newcastle. With just ten games to go, Albion will need a truly…
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Albion were unfortunate to lose against Everton and it leaves them nine points from safety having played a game more than Newcastle United. The Toon are, of course, next up at the Hawthorns on Sunday. I’ve mentioned the statistic about the Baggies having not won a Premier League game on a Tuesday, well they’ve not won one on a Thursday…
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